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snow CASE. No. 378,594. Patented Feb; 28, 1888.

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linrrn JAMES JOSEPH KELLY, OF ALBANY, NEWV YORK.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 378,594, dated February28, 1888.

Application filed January 5, 1888. Serial No. 259,889.

T0 to whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES J osnrn KELLY, of Albany, in the county ofAlbany and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Cash and other Cases, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in cash and similar cases, andhas for its object to provide a strong, durable, and attractive case,readily opened and closed, and provided 1wth a shelf operating inconnection with the The invention consists in the construction andcombination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully setforth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the case open and partly in section. Fig. 2is a transverse section on line 00 or of Fig.1 when the case is open;and Fig. 3 is a similar section on line a: m of Fig. 1, the case beingclosed.

In carrying out the invention, A represents the body of the case, whichis segmental in contour, provided with an inner fixed bottom, a, and anouter bottom, a, secured to the inner bottom with screws or equivalentdevices, whereby it may be readily and conveniently attached ordetached.

The outer bottom, a, is provided centrally the under face with a recess,12, extending from side to side, the walls whereof are grooved, adaptedto receive a shelf, 13, which shelf is purposed to slide in the recess1), being provided to that end with tongues at the ends e11- tering theaforesaid grooves. The thickness of the shelf is such as it will nottouch or bind upon the object by which the case may be supported. Theframe of the case, consisting of the aforesaid bottoms a a and segmentalend pieces, B, is completed by the addition of a halfcover, (I, rigidlysecured in said end pieces. The end pieces, B, project beyond or abovethe fixed cover (3, and the said extended portions are provided upon theinner side with a groove, (2, and below said groove at the open sectionof the case with an integral flange, d,

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which flange terminates flush with the edge of the fixed cover 0, asshown in Fig. '1. The end pieces are recessed each side of the center toreceive glass panes D, said panes being held in place by battens d andentered through slots in the inner bottom. Thus the glass is sustainedwithout putty and readily and conveniently replaced if broken. Thegrooved section of the end pieces also project out beyond the inner edgeof the inner bottom in similar manner as above the fixed cover.

The inner surface of the fixed cover 0 is preferablylined with asinglepiece of lookingglassE, and the upper surface of the inner bottom, or aportionof said surface, may be likewise provided, if desired. Over thefixed cover and in the grooves d of the end pieces the second section,0, of the cover is adapted to slide, the tongues of which slidingsection of the cover (illustrated by dotted lines in Fig. 1) are ofmetal, preferably brass, being secured in any suitable or approvedmanner.

The sliding cover 0 consists of a frame provided with an inserted glasspane, 0, and centrally to the rear of the said frame a cord or chain, Eis attached, which cord, extending downward in a transverse grooveproduced upon the fixed cover, is secured at the other end to the rearof the sliding shelf B.

It will thus be observed that when the shelf B is drawn out the slidingcover is raised, and that when said cover is closed the shelf is drawnin.

By reason of the detachable bottom the sliding cover may be removed andcleaned in a convenient and expeditious manner.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with a case provided with a sectional cover, onepart adapted to slide over the other, and a detachable auxiliary outerbottom, of a shelf sliding in said auxiliary bottom, and a cord or chainconnecting said shelf and sliding cover, substantially as shown anddescribed, whereby when the shelf is drawn out the sliding cover israised,

and vice versa, as set forth.

2. The combination, with a segmental case provided with a sectionalcover, one fixed and the other sliding over the stationary section,

the said sliding section having metal tongues, tionary cover, providedwith metal tongues of a detachable auxiliary bottom, a shelfslidentering the grooves d, of an auxiliary deing in said auxiliarybottom, and a cord or tachable recessed bottom, a shelf sliding in chainuniting the shelf and sliding cover of the said auxiliary bottom, and acord or chain con- 5 case, substantially as shown and described. nectingthe sliding cover and shelf, substan- 15 3. The combination, with asegmental case tially as and for the purpose herein set forth. providedwith lighted ends D, having grooves JAMES JOSEPH KELLY. d upon the innerface and flanges 01 below said Witnesses: grooves, a fixed sectionalcover, 0, and a PHILIP G. MCGUIRE, 10 lighted cover, 0, sliding over thesaid sta- PATRICK MOKIERNAN.

